Category: Covid19
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Mask theater…literally!
The missus and I were thinking of taking in a play this weekend at one of the theaters listed below, but, we had no desire to spend the time wearing a mask so we nixed the idea. I was curious so I looked up the covid policies for a number of theaters around town. They’re…
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For Those Of Us…
…who disdain conspiracy theories, and like a little bit of corroboration with our hot rumors… …the Biden administration certainly isn’t making things easy.
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Junetwentieth
Goivernor Klink on Twitter over the weekend, commemorating Juneteenth: “…work to dismantle unjust systems of oppression” Like open-ended emergency powers that can be extended endlessly at the whim of a political party in power? Like arbitrary authority that allows a governor to crush businesses at a whim, but spare the ones that donate to his…
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Results
The Pioneer Press, apparently knowing (what little is left of) its audience, says: Now, I don’t pry into other peoples personal healthcare decisions, and I’m pretty merciless to any idiot who tries to yap about mine. But it’s worth noting that Dr. Jensen, though not vaccinated, appears to have missed zero days of work or…
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Life Is Art Is Life
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: Still working from home (two weeks to flatten the curve, you know). Can’t log in today. My “remote authentication certificate” is not recognized. Called the Computer Support phone number. Recorded message says they’re experiencing a problem with remote login software but will send updated information to affected users by…
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“Misinformation”
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis on Twitter: “Out of 27 women that were accidentally pregnant during the vacc program. Outcome: 23 spontaneous abortions. 2 premature with neonatal death. 1 spontaneous abortion with neonatal death. 1 living baby Pfizer doc 5.3.6 page 12 “Safe and effective”” / Twitter” How is it…
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But Don’t You Dare Say Thera A Class War
At the Met Gala, yet again: Celebrities, showing their faces. Hired help, still muzzled. I’m not going to say that the upper crust feel that they are immune to Covid. I am going to say that their version of “science” has convinced them that the invasion of Ukraine and the imminent repeal of Roe V.…
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Chilling Effect?
Asking for voter ID is the next step toward a government run by the KKK. Unless you’re actually a DFLer. Then…: To be a delegate at DFL State convention, you need: Photo ID, proof of vaccination, and qa negative test result? The DFL does know that Black men are the least-vaccinated population in Minnesota, right?…
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Bring On The Crow
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The results of a two-year-long nation-wide experiment are conclusive. We nay-sayers were right all along: mask mandates do not stop the spread of Covid. I’m ready to accept my apology. Let the crow-eating begin. Joe Doakes Just as many of us were saying two years ago; masks make useful…
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Stock Tip: Krugman, Strong Sell
Paul Krugman on the end of the mask cult: My two cents? I suspect Krugman, and many maskaholics desperately want this to be true. Part of it is Berg’s Seventh Law – they need to project their behavior onto others. Part of it is the need on the cultural left that’s become apparent in the…
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The Party Of #Science
So over the weekend, DFL representative Kelly Morrison, and other DFLers, ran a loooong series of tweets from her district (SD45, the far west ‘burbs) endorsing convention on Saturday. Looks like a typical bunch of urban DFLers; masked up like bank robbers: I mean, their healthcare decision, their business. I don’t tell them what to…
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Lessons
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: Three years ago, an employee who wanted to work remotely was routinely denied. All employees must come to the office. For the last two years, an employee who wanted to come to the office was routinely denied. All employees must work remotely. Today, the business magazines are full of…
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The Last Karen On The Island Has Yet To Walk Out Of The Jungle
The St. Paul school board voted to keep masks on kids. Bear in mind, the districts “Director of public health and wellness” recommended dropping the mandate: “Effective 12:01 a.m. on March 28, that we move forward with the following changes: Masks are not required with low- to medium-community case rates in Ramsey County,” Langworthy said…
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Unmasked
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: No masks? Well crap, now what? Joe Doakes
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Karen Hardest Hit
Target eliminates mask requirements for customers and employees. Come for the news. Stay for the Karens howling with rage in the comment section.
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Coercion
A friend of the blog sends this piece, by a Twin Cities area public health nurse who, in a convoluted way, figured in my “Twenty Years Ago Today” series, way back when. But unlike my seven year long series, the article has nothing to do with personal nostalgia; it’s about her experience with the “unintended“…
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Dispatches from Planet DFL
One minor shout-out to former Minnesapolis mayor R.T. Rybak; to date, he is the only DFL politician to come on the Northern Alliance. We had a great discussion. You don’t have to throw plates at each other to have a good debate. But you can sure throw facts at each other: I mean, if one…
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Ride The Tiger
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Covid is over: you know it and so do I. Democrats want to frighten the public long enough to steal a few more seats through mail-in voting this Fall, but can they fool the headline-reading low-information voters that long? Maybe. Maybe Lesko Brandon can bribe the World Health Organization…
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If At FIrst, Second, Third Etc. You Don’t Succeed
I “joke” that Covid restrictions and states of emergency are on the ropes in states where Democrats are polling badly in the mid-terms. I supposed that it’s a logical corollary that in states where Democrats don’t need to worry about mid-terrms, they don’t have to care. Exhibit M: Maybe it’s just to forestall refugees from…
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Mayor Carter/Frey’s Perilous Tightrope
On the one hand, official hypochondria along with privileged lawlessness is polling very badly for the DFL this fall. So the vaccine mandates (and the whole “public safety is a privilege” thing) have got to go. On the other hand, if DFLers abandon hypochondria, the Karen vote (social, not ethnic) will rebel. So the mayors…
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Damage
After Vietnam, the “physically healthy but psychologically ravaged veteran became part of the American storybook. Eventually, it turned a spotlight – or at least a flashlight – on the damage veterans of all wars had, but had never really talked about. I bring that up to set the stage for what may become a far…
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The Next Battle
David Strom, writing on Facebook, sums up what I’ve been wanting/trying to say for much of this past 23 months: Follow the science is a bullshit phrase, not because science itself is bullshit, but because science at best can only provide input and data on what are not scientific questions. Science is a branch of…
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Some Conclusions “Science” Needs To Make
I’m not sure there’s scientific evidence of any of these – but if someone gave me a seven figure government grant, I’m sure I could come up with some. School Kids “Walking Out Of Class” Is Not Spontaneous: Big Left must be trying to get people to the polls in nine months; the headlines are…
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One Wonderw
A friend of the blog emails Love this: This is what sliding into authoritarianism looks like. During the American revolution, it’s pretty likely a thin majority of the population thought living under the British was juuuust fine.
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I Hope Neil Young Will Remember…
…neither Spotify nor at least some current research need him around anyhow.